Taming Infection: The American Response to Illness from Smallpox to Covid

"A clearly written, information-rich guide to the impact of infectious diseases on the United States and our responses to each of them. Coodley and Sarasohn demonstrate how science and public health have had to counter fear, ignorance and hubris-along with the microbes themselves-in battles that reached a desultory climax with our misbegotten reckoning with Covid-19."

Arthur Allen, author of The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl

"The book is a timely and urgent reminder that the battle again...